NHL cancels full preseason
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NHL cancels full preseason
Without any formal bargaining sessions having taken place in the nearly two weeks since the NHL officially locked out its players on Sept. 15, the league formally announced the cancellation of all remaining preseason games.
No hockey will be played until Oct. 11 at the earliest.
Previously, the league canceled all preseason games up until the beginning of October. On Thursday, all remaining games were axed, including:
Mon. Oct. 1 vs. New Jersey
Tues. Oct. 2 at Toronto
Fri. Oct. 5 at New Jersey
Sat. Oct. 6 at Chicago
The Flyers are still tentatively scheduled to open their season on Oct. 11 in a nationally televised game against the Bruins. That game seems to have a snowball’s chance in hell of happening at this point.
The league is expected to formally begin canceling regular season games next week.
The Phantoms - including young NHLers Brayden Schenn, Sean Couturier, Zac Rinaldo, Erik Gustafsson, Brandon Manning and Harry Zolnierczyk - open training camp on Saturday at the Voorhees, N.J., Skate Zone under new head coach Terry Murray. They will be in town for a little more than a week before shipping up to Glens Falls, N.Y., to open training camp.
The NHL and NHL Players’ Association are scheduled to begin three days of bargaining talks on Friday in New York, though they are not slated to include negotiating on the only topic that has stalled talks so far: How to split the league’s growing $3.3 billion revenue between players and owners. Instead, the two sides will speak about non-core issues like player health and safety, concussion issues, etc.
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Frank, on DNL you made a remark about Gary Bettman having done a lot to "grow the game". I really wish you had worded that differently, my friend.
I'm of the opinion that he has grown the LEAGUE which he represents. But he has done a great deal of damage to the sport and the ice hockey community as a whole.
I'm trying my best NOT to wish ill things on the people involved in this lockout. It will change nothing (apart from aging myself faster with anger). But it gets harder by the day....
(Perhaps I should stop reading articles about it! LOL!)
Comment removed.- Hey Frank,
Many props for the usage of the phrase "snowball's chance in hell"! That has long been one of my favorite phrases in the English language 
Bettman needs to stop servicing Crosby, and get to negotiating! Someone please tell me what is wrong with a 50-50 split of the HRR. Last time I checked, I had never seen a fan wearing a jersey with "Snider" or "Luukko" (as in, Peter) on the back. Why on earth do the owners feel they deserve more than 50% of it???— uncle meat- Maybe because, like every other business owner, they are the ones taking an investment risk with their capital? Risk and return are directly proportional. The players have no investment capital on the line.
How many companies do you think spend 50% of total revenue on employee salaries? Not many, I guarantee.— srmzeus11 - Your trying to rationalize this by comparing it to other business. The NHL is an entertainment business not a steel mill. The owners are nothing more than a glorified promoter for the real talent. These players are the most important asset these owners have. No players = no money. The players are the ones who have really sacrificed and risk it all every night for your enjoyment ( Pronger).
As far as financial risk goes the NHL is a well established league (see 3.3billion dollars). Its not the early 70's anymore when owning a hockey team was a potential risk. Many teams (north based) are in stable markets and present little "risk' to the owner anymore. The owners can just sit back and cash checks while people flood their arenas paying ridiculous amounts of money to do so.
In the NHL a players salary is not a salary. Its an expense. - On the bright side - the Phantoms should kick @$$ this year!!— uncle meat
I don't know if this is helpful, but yesterday I got together with one of my buddies to work out an acceptable split of a hypothetical $3 billion, and it only took us, like, 20 minutes.— 1980- In the NHL "full preseason" is the entire regular season. Regular season means absolutely nothing in hockey.— TEMPLE55
- Disagree, Temple55. The NHL regular season is there to determine who gets hurt for the playoffs.— 1980
- Can someone explain how the Flyers signed all of these players to large contracts which would likely put them well over the salary cap if the owners have their way in the new labor negotiations?— fischman
- A darn shame! The fan base for hockey just went south. Remember the baseball lockout that took years to get the fans back in the park. The up side is that minor league hockey is just as entertaining ...and tons cheaper!— dogman5
- The Flyers know that they'll sell out no matter what because we love hockey and we love this team. Snider also wants what we want, and isn't a part of the small market block holding this thing up. Philly, New York, Boston...they could easily thrive in a free market economy. But the NHL isn't a free market economy. Revenue sharing is a hybrid form of socialism and Snider is a capitalist all the way.— Scorekeeper
- Heard that there is a lingerie hockey league starting up....hoping to get season dickets.....— bigdaddyG
- who cares....after the 19000 plus elitist hockey fans....nobody in the city gives a dam.....until they reach the second round of the playoffs.....and with Homer in charge and Smiling Eddie at the helm, we dont really have to worry about that........— nuggett
